From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 8 16:56:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BED15044 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:56:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA24423; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 18:56:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 18:56:45 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Dan Langille Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lynx from /etc/crontab fails Message-ID: <19990708185645.A24080@dan.emsphone.com> References: <378534c4.48c2.0@actrix.gen.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <378534c4.48c2.0@actrix.gen.nz>; from "Dan Langille" on Fri Jul 9 11:31:16 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 09), Dan Langille said: > I'm trying to execute a shell script from a cron job. The script > runs fine when launched manually, but when launched from a cron job I > get the following: > > lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.yi.org/bin/dyndns.fcgi?ipaddr= > > Any ideas why lynx has this problem only under these circumstances? Try ktracing it? Do you set any variables in your shell startup scripts that might affect lynx's behaviour? Also consider using fetch, which was designed to be used in non-interactive places like cron scripts. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message